[Non-Sequitur]

I'm not going to argue with you on the Shepard case, or try and guess how the national media choose their sensational stories. But it seems to me that complaining about the coverage, or lack of it, on this story means that we are trying to be as bad as they are.

Five people are dead. But for the grace of God it would be six. The people who did this are on trial. When convicted, and I have no doubt that then will be, and when sentenced to death, and again I have no doubt that they will be, they will be taken to the correctional facility at El Dorado and held there through their endless appeals before being bussed over to Lansing and executed. I don't care if the victims were white and the killers were black, or vice versa. The killers are going to pay and all the media attention in the world will not change that, or speed it up.

[Skooz]

I can't say that I disagree with anything in your post. I was just pointing out the media hypocrisy.

[republicman]

--But it seems to me that complaining about the coverage, or lack of it, on this story means that we are trying to be as bad as they are--.

Hardly, we are criticizing the media for not being even handed. If they want to leave the Shepards, and the Byrds, and the Wichitas alone, or they wantr to trumpet them in big letters most of us wouldn't complain.

But when they want to trumpet one and hide the otherthe result is propaganda of the worse kind.